⁴⁸ And he answering said to him who spake to him, `Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?'

⁹ Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep.

³⁷ `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

³² and a multitude was sitting about him, and they said to him, `Lo, thy mother and thy brethren without do seek thee.'

³³ And he answered them, saying, `Who is my mother, or my brethren?'

⁴⁹ And he said unto them, `Why `is it' that ye were seeking me? did ye not know that in the things of my Father it behoveth me to be?'

⁵² and Jesus was advancing in wisdom, and in stature, and in favour with God and men.

³ and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;'

⁴ Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'

¹⁶ So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;